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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Thrity joins avalanche of authors in Georgia

Former BJ reporter Thrity Umrigar will be among more than SIX
HUNDRED authors at the Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival in
Georgia on Saturday, Aug. 30. This is the largest independent book festival in the
country.

Thrity will be in the Marriott Conference Center Ballroom at 3 p.m.
with author Porochista Khakpour discussing “Love in the Time of Globalization.”When she returns to Ohio, Thrity will get ready for readings of her 7th book and 6th novel, “The Story Hour,” which
was published Aug. 19, on Thursday, Sept. 4 in Woodmere, Ohio.

9/4/14: 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
28801 Chagrin Blvd Woodmere, OH 44122

(216) 765-7520

Bombay,
India native Thrity’s previous novels are “Bombay Time” (2002), “The Space
Between Us” (2007), “If Today be Sweet” (2008), “The Weight of Heaven” (2010)
and “The World We Found” (2012), and all set in the country of her birth, as
was her memoir, “First Darling of the Morning” (2008).

Thrity
teaches creative writing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
(216) 765-7520

Akron Art Prize 2014
is introducing a new Art Prize app with an enhanced voter and participant
experience, getting you close to the entering artist. The artist name,
entry title, media type, artist statement, email and artist profile information
– including links to websites and business information – will be available on
your smart phone or via voting tablets. Voting will take place during a limited
time frame and will only be allowed within Downtown, encouraging voters to
attend and experience the events.

“It'll
be an embarrassment of riches: 4 popup artists (Mary Sandmann (Mary Sandmann
Photography of Medina), Bernadette Houk, Sharon Wagner and James Leslie) and a
new show by tattoo artists in the Penthouse (3rd floor), plus the opening of
Akron Art Prize on the first floor.”

Monday, August 25, 2014

Burger King joining inversion tax avoidance strategy

Burger King has decided to have it their way, by buying Canadian doughnut
and coffee chain Tim Horton and then technically becoming a “foreign company,”
thereby switching from the USA’s 35% corporate tax rate to Canada’s 15%.

The tactic is called inversion.

Firms don't move anywhere, except on paper.

While on paper the USA corporate tax rate is 35%, domestic firms average
paying 12.6%. However, Burger King is paying 27%.

Other companies that have bought up a foreign business, mainly so they can
claim to be doing business from the foreign country, are

Drug company Pfizer, looking to acquire British AstraZeneca,
and the maker of Adderall, AbbVie, is seeking to buy Irish Shire. Chiquita
banana is looking to merge with Irish Fyffes.

Pharmaceutical giant Milan, founded by West Virginia University’s late
benefactor, Mylan Puskar, is on the same road.

But public pressure has
unraveled at least one deal: Walgreens, the largest American drug store, decided not to go through with an inversion through buying Swiss
Alliance Boots. It was the third major deal to collapse in recent months.

Ironically, the companies that pay the highest U.S. tax rates have been
creating the most jobs.

It’s impossible to have Art on the Green in Hudson without Beacon Blue in there somewhere.

This weekend it was retired BJ chief artist Dennis Balogh hawking his wares in one of the many tents at the Ohio 91 and Ohio 303 intersection in downtown Hudson, a stone’s throw from the gazebo where music floats through the air every weekend.

In other years, it was former BJ photographer Denny Gordon’s wife and her sculptures, former BJ chief artist Art Krummel with his paintings and former Features Department editor and columnist Connie Bloom with her fabric art (formerly know as quilt art).

And Balogh, in 2013 and earlier years.

Balogh’s illustrations have graced such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post (the cover), Kiplinger Financial, New York Stock Exchange, St. Louis Magazine, Success Magazine and Harvard's HBS Magazine.

He has won so many awards that it could make this article too long to list them.

Balogh did some great original art for Channels television guide covers over the years, too.

That was in ancient times when there was a Channels magazine worthy of the name when I gave birth to it with David Bianculli handling the writing when he wasn’t entertaining the newsroom with his antics before he left for New York City and Mark Dawidziak provided a sanier atmosphere.

I took care of my baby for 16 years till my 1996 retirement.

Balogh went from Cooper School of Arts in Cleveland to the Cleveland Press to the Columbus Dispatch to the BJ.

After 21 years at the BJ, Balogh was part of a major exodus in 2006 when 335 years of experience walked out the door.

Ol’ Blue has never been the same since. And the newsroom staff has been bludgeoned from more than 200 to fewer than 60.

Dennis lives in Broadview Heights – phone (440) 546-9223 or email baloghstudio@yahoo.com if you want to renew old times.

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